Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-12-26 Thread Blair Campbell
To begins, there must be some software installed in the PATH: 1. WatTCP (http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/) 2. LPT2FILE (http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utiltext15.html) Perhaps LPT2FILE could be modified to pipe the data to JD.EXE instead of to a file, so that direct printing would be possible. --

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-03 Thread Bruce M. Axtens
In my (limited) experience, I've discovered that some network printers have an FTP server. If I open a session to it and put a file, the file gets printed. Kind regards, Bruce. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-02 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Monday 01 October 2007 23:56, Alain M. wrote: If you have Samba in you Linux box, you can share a printer through Samba, that is the way to go... I think that's definetely not the way to go, because if the computer on which the printer is shared goes off, the printer become unavailable for

[Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi! I'm wondering, if printing from FreeDOS to a network printer is doable? The only informations I found on the net are about using the net command, which is obviously present only on the most recent MS DOS operating systems... There are already ftp clients and web browsers for FreeDOS, even

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Riebisch
Mateusz Viste wrote: I'm wondering, if printing from FreeDOS to a network printer is doable? Look for Microsoft Network Client 3.0. Or visit http://www.geocities.com/ken_yap_aus/. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Monday 01 October 2007 10:37, Robert Riebisch wrote: Look for Microsoft Network Client 3.0. Or visit http://www.geocities.com/ken_yap_aus/. I already saw those resources, but couldn't find anything about direct printing to network printers... MS Network Client is a memory hog, and as far

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Riebisch
Mateusz Viste wrote: as I understand, it's designed to print to shared printers on a MS network rather than printing directly to a network printer (I don't have a MS network, just a plain TCP/IP with Linux computers)... Then try NCSA lpr, WATTCP lpr, or CUTCP. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Monday 01 October 2007 11:17, Robert Riebisch wrote: Then try NCSA lpr, WATTCP lpr, or CUTCP. Well... I guess LPR/LPQ/LPRM etc... are usefull when printing to a printer attached to a Linux/Unix PC. My printer is a _stand-alone_ network printer (it doesn't require a PC to work, it has its own

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:02:50PM +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: On Monday 01 October 2007 11:17, Robert Riebisch wrote: Then try NCSA lpr, WATTCP lpr, or CUTCP. Well... I guess LPR/LPQ/LPRM etc... are usefull when printing to a printer attached to a Linux/Unix PC. My printer is a

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Riebisch
Mateusz Viste wrote: Well... I guess LPR/LPQ/LPRM etc... are usefull when printing to a printer attached to a Linux/Unix PC. My printer is a _stand-alone_ network printer LP* is not limited to UN*X. (it doesn't require a PC to work, it has its own IP, etc...). I doubt So it's not really

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Monday 01 October 2007 13:30, Robert Riebisch wrote: I'm not aware of such an application. Start with WATTCP and distribute your result. :-) Until now I got it working the following way: To begins, there must be some software installed in the PATH: 1. WatTCP (http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/) 2.

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Riebisch
Mateusz Viste wrote: 1. WatTCP (http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/) Really? Or just a valid WATTCP.CFG? It's maybe not the most elegant way, but it works :-) OK :-) Robert Riebisch P.S. Please remove all target=_blank from your home page. ;-) -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Alain M.
Mateusz Viste escreveu: On Monday 01 October 2007 10:37, Robert Riebisch wrote: Look for Microsoft Network Client 3.0. Or visit http://www.geocities.com/ken_yap_aus/. I already saw those resources, but couldn't find anything about direct printing to network printers... MS Network Client

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-10-01 Thread Alain M.
What you fount are good news... By the way, are you printing from a plain dos machine, dosemu... ??? Alain Mateusz Viste escreveu: On Monday 01 October 2007 13:30, Robert Riebisch wrote: I'm not aware of such an application. Start with WATTCP and distribute your result. :-) Until now I